...All of this illustrates what might be termed the paradox of limitation, which runs through everything that follows: the more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control, and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets. But the more you confront the facts of finitude instead—and work with them, rather than against them—the more productive, meaningful, and joyful life becomes...

...If you understand it, that means you can change it. You have resilience and insight and the leverage to make it better...

...This tortilla pie can be your next Mexican or Italian dinner, depending on the ingredients used...

...Moderate emotional discomfort is a signal that you’re developing as a person, and it often happens before you can detect the benefits of self-growth...

...At the end of the day, there is little difference between a process that misses a potential candidate and one that misses a candidate’s potential...

...Knowing when to ignore feedback that isn’t useful or is badly intentioned can be just as useful as knowing when to seek out the kind of feedback that is instructive...

...One of the things we certainly have control over is deciding whether we’ll seek to spend our days in control or not. We might have to make sacrifices along the way, but the feeling is up to us...

...doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people...

...Despite the ongoing shift to an increasingly digital world of automatic electronic verification of everything from transactions to identity, the reality is that today, there are still a number of documents that individuals must be able to provide to various companies, regulators, or government agencies...

...They’re topped with a perfectly silky, creamy sauce and coated with a crunchy, buttery, and savory parmesan and panko topping...

...If you want to make better decisions, you need to do everything you can to reduce the pressure you’re under...

...The ringer on a phone was designed to establish urgency. And social media has optimized for that itch as well...But it’s not up to them...

...Vote it off the island...Automate it...Write your own rules...Every week, block off the same time for yourself at work...

...Avoiding bad decisions is just as important as making good ones. Knowing the warning signs and having a set of rules for your decision-making process limits the amount of luck you need to get good outcomes...

...The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them...

...There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is...But then, in order to make use of the thing, you must also pay a second price. This is the effort and initiative required to gain its benefits, and it can be much higher than the first price...

...This Skillet Shepherd’s Pie recipe is loaded with flavorful beef and veggies, topped with fluffy and creamy mashed potatoes, then baked to perfection...

...Focused repetitions give you feedback. Feedback makes you better. Each repetition builds upon the ones you’ve already done. This is how greatness happens. A series of tiny gains, imperceptible in moment, aggregate into massive differences in the end...

...Given that the list of things to do is intentionally endless, it’s on each of us to decide what ‘enough’ looks like. Because more time isn’t always the answer...

...If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be...